EP0044338A1 - Anzeigesystem für energieverluste - Google Patents
Anzeigesystem für energieverlusteInfo
- Publication number
- EP0044338A1 EP0044338A1 EP81900536A EP81900536A EP0044338A1 EP 0044338 A1 EP0044338 A1 EP 0044338A1 EP 81900536 A EP81900536 A EP 81900536A EP 81900536 A EP81900536 A EP 81900536A EP 0044338 A1 EP0044338 A1 EP 0044338A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- steam
- inlet
- flow
- outlet
- probe
- Prior art date
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Classifications
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
- G01F15/00—Details of, or accessories for, apparatus of groups G01F1/00 - G01F13/00 insofar as such details or appliances are not adapted to particular types of such apparatus
- G01F15/08—Air or gas separators in combination with liquid meters; Liquid separators in combination with gas-meters
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
- G01F1/00—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow
- G01F1/74—Devices for measuring flow of a fluid or flow of a fluent solid material in suspension in another fluid
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01K—MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G01K7/00—Measuring temperature based on the use of electric or magnetic elements directly sensitive to heat ; Power supply therefor, e.g. using thermoelectric elements
- G01K7/02—Measuring temperature based on the use of electric or magnetic elements directly sensitive to heat ; Power supply therefor, e.g. using thermoelectric elements using thermoelectric elements, e.g. thermocouples
- G01K7/04—Measuring temperature based on the use of electric or magnetic elements directly sensitive to heat ; Power supply therefor, e.g. using thermoelectric elements using thermoelectric elements, e.g. thermocouples the object to be measured not forming one of the thermoelectric materials
Definitions
- This invention relates to a system for detecting vapor phase loss, in a bi-phase fluid circuit, such as in a steam circuit.
- the present invention was developed in view of a vexing energy loss problem in steam systems, but is not limited to that environment.
- Trap 1 has no steam loss, but actually discharges a considerable amount of steam at atmospheric pressure due to flashing of the condensate a the pressure is reduced.
- the human eye actually sees a volume flow, in the above example a large cloud of steam and a few drops of water would be seen.
- Trap 2 which is defective and has a steam loss, discharges the same volume of steam as Trap 1 but a somewhat smaller volume of condensate. How ever, the human eye would be very hard pressed to deter- mine which of these two traps actually had a steam loss. 2. In some areas it has been common practice to test traps by reading upstream and downstream trap tem ⁇ peratures with a pyrometer. If the temperature differ ⁇ ence is very high, the trap has been considered satis ⁇ factory, while if the temperature difference is very low the trap has been considered defective.
- a highly trained person using a stethoscope or an ultrasonic device can inspect a trap for steam loss.
- considerable skill and training is required to understand the normal mode of operation of all the various available traps and to be able to distinguish abnormal operation. Sound devices generally can only be used to make a good/bad judgment of trap operation, and cannot accurately quantify the magnitude of a steam loss.
- An energy loss detecting apparatus which is free of the foregoing limitations of the above-discussed known prior methods.
- a system capable of monitoring steam trap condition regardless of the type of steam trap.
- a system capable of displaying steam flow in any desired units, and of reducing the skill level required of the operator.
- a system capable of measuring the velocity of the vapor phase independent of the liquid phase.
- an energy loss detecting system for measuring the rate of flow of the vapor phase of a bi-phase fluid flow, in the presence of an unknown quantity of the liquid phase.
- Means separate the vapor phase from the liquid phase.
- Means produce a signal related to the vapor phase flow rate.
- Energy loss due to a faulty steam trap is measurable by interposing the vapor flow rate measuring apparatus in a steam line between a steam consuming device and the steam trap.
- Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a steam circuit incorporating an energy loss detection system embodying the invention.
- Figure 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary, central cross sectional view of a portion of the energy loss detection system of Figure 1.
- Figure 3 is a schematic diagram showing a probe and readout circuit usable in the vapor flow rate measuring apparatus of Figure 2.
- Figures 4 and 5 are central cross-sectional views of a modified energy loss detection system oriented for installation in vertical and horizontal conduit lines, respectively.
- Figure 6 is a central cross-sectional view of a further modified energy loss detection system.
- Figure 7 is a central cross-sectional view of a further modified energy loss detector.
- Figure 8 is a central cross-sectional view of a two wire probe.
- Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of a circuit in which the Figure 8 probe is usable.
- DETAILED DESCRIPTION Figure 1 discloses a bi-phase fluid circuit .10 com ⁇ prising a conventional steam source 11 applying steam through a conduit 12 to a steam consumer device, or load, 14. In normal operation, the heat energy in the steam is transferred to the consumer device 14.
- the consumer device 14 may be a heat exchanger, or other device in which heat is converted to mechanical, electrical or other energy forms.
- a further conduit 16 connects the return side of the heat exchanger to a return main 18 leading back to the steam source 11, to enable steam source 11 to reheat the returning condensate to steam.
- the steam source 11 may include, for example, a conventional boiler and fluid circulating pump.
- a steam trap 20, in the return conduit 16 from the steam consumer device 14, may be of any conventional type, for example as in U.S. Patent No. 4 149 557, issued April 17, 1979.
- the steam condenses and is released to the conduit 16 as condensate.
- the steam trap 20 is to dis ⁇ charge this condensate to the return main 18, but prevent escape of steam, to maximize the transfer of heat energy to the consumer device 14 by maximizing con ⁇ version of steam to condensate in the consumer device.
- the steam circuit 10 is conventional.
- the steam trap may become damaged or may wear, permitting steam to be lost.
- the present invention measures the energy (steam) loss due to a defect in the steam trap 20, by an apparatus 22.
- the apparatus 22 includes a sensing unit 23 interposed in the conduit 16 between the steam con ⁇ sumer device 14 and the steam trap 20. While shown in Figure 1 as separate elements, it is contemplated that the sensing unit 23 may be integrated with the steam trap and share a common casing.
- the sensing unit 23 includes a separator 24 having a hollow, generally upstanding casing 25.
- An upstanding baffle 27 fixed within the casing 25 divides it into side-by-side inlet and outlet chambers 31 and 32.
- the casing 25 has inlet and outlet openings, here conventional pipe fittings 33 and 34 fixed to the peripheral wall of casing 25 and opening respectively into the inlet and outlet chambers 31 and 32.
- the inlet and outlet openings 33 and 34 are spaced above the bottom 37 and below the top 38 of casing 25.
- the bottom portion of the casing 25, below the inlet and outlet openings 33 and 34 is normally filled with condensate.
- the baffle 27 extends downward below the inlet and outlet openings 33 and 34 and hence below the normal working condensate level L to block vapor flow through the bottom portion of casing 25 between the casing inlet and outlet openings 33 and 34.
- an opening 41 between the baffle 27 and the bottom 37 of casing 25, below level L permits conden ⁇ sate flow past the baffle 27, from the casing inlet 33 to the outlet 34.
- a vapor port 42 provides gas flow communication between the inlet and outlet chambers 31 and 32 through the upper portion of the baffle 27.
- the vapor port 42 is an elongate transverse duct, here an open-ended tube 43, penetrating the baffle 27 and providing a suitable cross section, longitudinall extending vapor flow path through the casing 25. Passag of liquid through port 42 is avoided by spacing the vapo port well above the residual liquid level L and inlet an outlet openings 33 and 34, and by a splash-prevention ledge 46 extending transversely partway across the inlet chamber, vertically between the inlet opening 33 and vapor port 43, from the inlet side of baffle 27.
- a vapor flow sensing probe 51 is fixed at 52 on the top portion 38 of casing 25 and extends through the casing wall into the vapor flow through tube 43.
- the probe senses the velocity of the vapor and provides an output signal which is a function of vapor phase flow rate.
- Various probes may be employed for this purpose, examples including hot wire anemometer, ther ister, heater-thermocouple and Pitot tube probes.
- Figure 3 schematically discloses a suitable probe 51 of the heater-thermocouple type, including a sensing thermocouple 59 heated above ambient temperature by an electric resistance heating element 61.
- a sensing thermocouple 59 heated above ambient temperature by an electric resistance heating element 61.
- the vapor flow carries away an increasing amount of the heat generated by heater 61 and thereby reduces the temperature at, and output signal of, sensing thermo ⁇ couple 59.
- the output signal of the thermo ⁇ couple 59 varies with changes in vapor velocity through port 42.
- the probe 51 conventionally includes a ther ⁇ mally conductive outer skin (e.g.
- thermocouple 59 of metal
- thermocouple 59 The probe, above the thermocouple 59 and heater 61, may be filled with a conventional thermal insulating barrier 57. Also, an additional reference thermocouple (not shown) may be positioned in thermal isolation from the heater 61 for sensing the ambient temperature of the vapor adjacent the probe, so as to cancel the effect of changes in ambient vapor temperature on the output signal of sensing thermocouple 59.
- heater 61 is energized from a conven ⁇ tional electric power source 73, controlled by switch 74.
- the electric power fed to the heater is preferably monitored, as by a conventional wattmeter 76.
- the electrical output of the thermocouple 59 is fed through conductors 63 and 64 to a suitable readout and/or alarm circuit 72, here a voltmeter 79 driven by a conventiona amplifier 81.
- the meter 79 may be calibrated, for a given probe 51 and separating unit 24, in any desired units of flow measure ment, such as CFM, SCFM, pounds per hour, feet per second, cost per unit time, etc.
- a two-state output or alarm device may be employed to produce a good/bad judgment in response to the output of probe 51.
- Readout systems of other types, such as electronic, hydraulic, etc. may be employed.
- the separator 24 separates the two phases of the bi-phase fluid entering through its inlet opening 33 and permits recombination for discharge from its outlet opening 34.
- the entering bi-phase fluid e.g. conden- sate and steam
- Liquid in the bottom of the casing 25 seals the opening 41 against vapor phase flow there ⁇ through. Accordingly, the vapor phase can only flow through the top portion of the separator casing 25, through the vapor port 42, to the outlet opening 34.
- the separator is a passive element within the conduit 16.
- the flow rate through the separator 23 is thus a function of the bi-phase fluid circuit 10 in which it is installed, rather than of the separator structure itself.
- Applicants 1 apparatus can determine the magnitude of the steam loss from trap 20. Locating the separator 24 between the steam consumer 14 and steam trap 20 has several advantages. First, the separator, being up ⁇ stream of the trap, always remains at the pressure of . steam source 11, which avoids problems resulting from flashing of condensate to steam as the result of a pressure drop. Second, high measurement accuracy is achieved because any steam passing through the steam consumer to the trap is an energy loss. More particu ⁇ larly, in theory all heat energy should be used in the heat exchanger and none lost downstream.
- the readout circuit 72 of Figure 3 may be permanently connected to the corresponding separator 24 and probe 51.
- the readout circuit 72 may be a portable unit usable alternately with many different separator-probe units by a suitable detachable connection, schematically indicated at 81 ( Figure 3) to the electrical conductors of the probe 51.
- the probe 51 may be removably mounted on the top portion 38 of casing 25, for example by threaded engage ⁇ ment.
- a conventional threaded plug (not shown) can replace the removable probe.
- the removable probe can then be installed in other separators 24, thus minimizing the number of probes required to service a plurality of separators.
- removal of the prob 51 from the separator casing 25, during intervals when no measurement is needed, would substantially reduce or eliminate damage to or contamination of the sensing end of the probe where the fluids passing through the separator incorporate hostile materials.
- the vapor flow measuring portion of the apparatus disclosed is also usable for other steam flow measure ⁇ ments, for example of steam flow into or out of control valves, bypass valves, heat exchangers, steam traps and so forth. Use in refrigeration systems for vapor phase refrigerant flow measurement is also contemplated.
- Figures 4 and 5 disclose a modified separator 24A in which the casing 25A has inlet and outlet openings 33A and 34A, respectively, aligned on a common axis at an angle of about 45° to the length of the casing 25A.
- the inlet and outlet openings 33A and 34A are in bosses 101 and 102, respectively, angularly arranged on the casing 25A.
- the inlet and outlet openings 33A and 34A are spaced from the bottom wall 37A of the casing.
- the casing bottom wall 37A is offset below the outlet opening 34A by approximately the width of the casing interior.
- the baffle 27A extends well below both of the openings 33A and 34A.
- the separator 24A can be coaxially inserted in a horizontal conduit line, as in Figure 2, or in a sloped, or even vertical conduit line because the inlet and outlet openings 33A and 34A can be sloped or vertically aligned as in Figure 5.
- the preferred fluid flow through the separator 24A is indicated by the arrows.
- the separator 24A is further modified by forming th
- vapor port 42A between a ledge 43A fixed atop the baffle 27A and the top wall 38A of the casing.
- the probe 51A is releasably secured by a threaded fitting 104 through the top wall 38A of the casing and extends in substan ⁇ tially centered relation into the port 42A to monitor vapor flow.
- Figure 6 discloses a further modified separator 131 comprising a casing 132 having a central chamber 133 and coaxially aligned inlet and outlet openings 136 and 137 on opposite sides of the chamber 133.
- the inlet and outlet openings 136 and 137 are here provided in pro ⁇ jecting bosses 138 and 139 on the casing 132 for con ⁇ nection by any convenient means not shown in a fluid carrying conduit as above discussed with respect to separators 24 and .24A.
- a nozzle 141 fixed within the inlet side of the chamber 133 includes a central passage 142 coaxially aligned with the inlet and outlet openings 136 and 137.
- the central passage 142 is funnel-shaped, having an inlet portion 144 in direct sealed communication with the inlet opening 136 and necked down therefrom to a reduced cross section cylindrical outlet portion 146.
- the outlet end of the nozzle passage outlet portion 146 is aimed toward but spaced from the outlet opening 137 to be in free communication with the remainder of the chamber.133.
- a probe 51B which may be similar to probes 51 and 51A, is mounted on the casing 132 and extends , into the chamber 133 in transversely offset relation to the nozzle 141.
- the probe 51B is thus spaced from the coaxial path through the inlet opening 136, nozzle 141 and outlet opening 137.
- a fluid entering the inlet opening 136 is reduced in flow cross section and tends to increase in flow velocity as it travels through the nozzle 141.
- a bi-phase fluid such as a mixture of water and steam
- the liquid phase tends to exit the nozzle 141 and pass out the outlet opening 137 as a limited cross section jet, as generally indicated by the arrow 150.
- a portion of the vapor phase leaves the outlet opening with the liquid phase.
- the temperature of the probe 51B decreases or increases with an increase or decrease, respectively, in the amount of vapor phase in the bi ⁇ phase fluid passing through the separator 131. It is theorized that a portion of the vapor phase circulates through the chamber 133 past the probe 51B, as indi ⁇ cated by the arrows 151, with the vapor flow past the probe increasing with the amount of vapor in the bi ⁇ phase fluid.
- a modified separator 24B ( Figure 7) operates with its inlet and outlet openings 33B and 34B aligned in either horizontal or vertical pipelines.
- the tubelike inlet and outlet openings 33B and 34B extend into the casing 25B, toward a central baffle 27B.
- Baffle 27B extends the width (into the page in Figure 7) of the casing 25B and includes a lateral plate 201 facing outlet 34B, a diagonaly plate 202 facing inlet 33B at an angle and an axial flange extending from the edge of lateral plate 201 in the outlet direction.
- a vapor channel 43B has side walls 20-6 and a bottom wall 207 and, from its inlet end 208 laterally spaced from inlet 33B, extends past the edge of diagonal plate 202 and through a slot in lateral plate 201 to a point axially upstream from and laterally offset from outlet 34B.
- a probe 51B extends into the intermediate part of trough 43B from a fitting 10 B threaded through the peripheral wall of casing 25B.
- Further diagonal baffles for example as in dotted lines at 211, may lie in the vapor path from inlet 33B through trough 43B to outlet 3 B.
- the baffle structure 27B converts the velocity pressure of the incoming steam-water mixture to a static pressure, by establishing a sinuous path through which it must travel and thereby substantially reducing the velocity of the incoming bi-phase fluid.
- Solid arrows 150 and dotted arrows 151 respectively indicate water and vapor flow through the apparatus.
- Reference characters 1, o L_ ⁇ indicate typical water
- water levels L and L may vary.
- baffles are arranged so that such breaking of the water trap does not itself suddenly drop steam flow past probe 51B (for example from 20 down to 5 pounds per hour).
- probe 51B for example from 20 down to 5 pounds per hour.
- the probe can signal steam flow values up to the preselected maximum and thereafter continue to indicate maximum.
- small probe size is required, for example diameters of l/8th inch ou.tside and less than
- thermocouple 59C and heater wire 61C are connected electrically in series at 220. Wires 221 and 222 connect to the opposite sides of heater 61C and thermocouple 59C for connection to monitoring and heating circuitry (as in Figure 9) .
- the thermocouple 59C is repeatably located in probe 51C, as in a silver brazed deposit 225 fixed to probe skin 66C. If thermo- couple conductor 224 is of the same material as wire
- thermocouple signal is from thermocouple tip 59C, regardless of the material of heater wire 61C.
- a metal cap may be substituted for the silver braze 224.
- the outer skin 66C (made of appropriate metal) may be substituted for conductor 222, by connecting the lowe end of conductor 224 thereto.
- Figure 9 acts as a sample and hold circuit for alternating electric current pulses to the heater 6ID of a probe 51D with sampling of the electric signal from thermocouple 59D, to permit the heater and thermocouple to be connected in series as in Figure 8.
- a conventional pulse generator 250 (for example a commercial integrated circuit timer) is powered by positive and negative circuit voltages +V and -V (for example - 12 volts DC) .
- Pulse generator 250 is frequency controlled by resistors Rl and R2 and capacito Cl to apply a low frequency square wave (for example 4 Hz) signal through a resistor R3 to a conventional amplifier-integrator 252.
- the latter has integration elements C2 and R4 and produces a saw tooth signal 254 at the same frequency on a line 256 driving the negative input of a comparator 258.
- Comparator 258 generates a square wave pulse 259 when the saw tooth 254 rises above a threshold voltage 261 set by a heat pulse adjusting potentiometer PI connected in a resistive voltage divider R5, PI, R6. Adjusting potentiometer PI adjusts the width of positive heat pulses 259 and, as discussed below, the average current fed through heater 61D.
- the positive pulses 259 are applied through a resistor R7 to periodically turn on a small signal NPN transistor Ql.
- Transistor Ql receives collector bias through a resistor R8 from a conventional constant voltage supply B+.
- the turned on transistor Ql conducts through a low value resistor R9 from the base of a PNP power transistor Q2, causing the latter to conduct from the B+ supply through a diode Dl and thence through series heater coil 61D and thermocouple 59D to circuit ground. This heats the probe 51D during each positive pulse 259.
- Transistor Q2 receives emitter bias at R10.
- Amplifier 266, 267 is thus enabled in spaces between the heat pulses 259 and amplifies the voltage of the thermo ⁇ couple 59D appearing across a line 269 (from between diode Dl and heater 61D) and circuit ground.
- the output stage 267 amplifies such periodic thermocouple signal to drive a meter or the like at 79D. Adjustment of potentiometer P2 assures that the thermocouple voltage sensing times are spaced between heat pulses 259 and do not overlap same.
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US06/113,835 US4305548A (en) | 1980-01-21 | 1980-01-21 | Energy loss detection system |
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EP0044338A1 true EP0044338A1 (de) | 1982-01-27 |
EP0044338A4 EP0044338A4 (de) | 1984-09-19 |
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US (1) | US4305548A (de) |
EP (1) | EP0044338A4 (de) |
JP (1) | JPS57500035A (de) |
BE (1) | BE887153A (de) |
CA (1) | CA1150077A (de) |
MX (1) | MX149255A (de) |
WO (1) | WO1981002203A1 (de) |
ZA (1) | ZA81385B (de) |
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